Recent Updates
Preservation Work at Contee-Parago Park
May 4, 2022In October 2020, Baltimore Heritage awarded Friends of Contee-Parago Park a $500 micro-grant to help them preserve the original dedication plaque installed in the park in 1971. Here’s an update from Jean Lee Cole of the Friends of Contee-Parago Park: The sign was installed this morning by a wonderful team… Read more
Mount Vernon Place Plein Air 2022
March 7, 2022Mark your calendars for Sunday September 25, 2022! We will be back with our second in-person Mount Vernon Place plein air art show and sale. This spring and summer dozens of artists will be painting outside in Mount Vernon Place and their works will be on display and for… Read more
2021 Thank You!
January 18, 2022All of us at Baltimore Heritage want to say a sincere thank you to everybody who renewed their membership, joined for the first time, and donated an extra gift to help us meet our 2021 challenge match. Your gifts in 2021 helped us to meet our challenge match and will… Read more
Fire at the Sellers Mansion
October 28, 2021Yesterday the Sellers Mansion in Lafayette Square had a fire inside. Built in 1868 just after Lafayette Square turned from a Civil War Union Army hospital base into a residential community, the mansion is listed as a Baltimore City historic landmark. It has anchored the Lafayette Square neighborhood for nearly… Read more
Micro-Grants Fund Six Baltimore Projects!
October 22, 2021Thank you to everyone who came to our virtual micro-grant party last night and helped select grants for six Baltimore projects! It was a fun and participatory event. Here are the six projects that received funding: $500 Micro-Grants: Thomas Johnson Elementary Middle School field trip to the Baltimore Museum of… Read more
2021 Virtual Pitch Party: Help Us Give Away Six Micro-Grants!
October 6, 2021Please help us give away six micro-grants to advance good ideas in Baltimore. This is our sixth year of providing micro-grants and as we have done in past years, we’ll have five finalists provide three-minute “pitches” of their ideas… and then we will ask you to cast virtual ballots for… Read more